flemmings | (no subject)

I'm cooking a turkey because Christmas is all about bread stuffing and cranberry sauce where I come from, and I thought it was a small turkey- 9 lbs or so- but my roasting pan is equally as small so to baste it I have to lift it out bodily and put it in another pan and scoop up the juice with my spoon and then put the turkey back (and thank god I found a proper turkey lifter finally) and then return the pan to the oven.

And it occurred to me, here I am a gay woman who is all about the babies and I don't have a turkey baster of my own. Fail, fail, fail.

But even though I fail I have scored mightily in the gift department. To save sensibilities I won't list 'n' gloat, but I *will* share what's sharable. So: behold Hisui the gold dragon, Goukou's Chancellor and heart-throb of whatever court he finds himself in, from the talented pen of

rasetsunyo. Linked from my archive because lj's gallery function reduces the size to something like half and you can't see it in proper detail.

His nose. I am so taken with his nose it's silly. Thank you again,

rasetsunyo! (I now discover the reason you never seem to update your lj is because I didn't friend you back even though I thought I had. That oversight has been taken care of.)

I want to iconify the face but it seems you can't turn a .gip into a .jpeg in Photoshop even by turning it into a .bmp first, which is what I normally do. I know .gips can be icons but when you reduce it in size the clean lines go fuzzy. Anyone know a solution to this?

Threaded | Top-Level Comments Only

if you don't mind cluttering your desktop/start menu with Another Graphic Manipulating Software:

http://www.irfanview.com/main_download_engl.htm

It's nice for simple jobs such as rotate, changing color system (e.g., colors to black and white, why? yes), and of course, saving as one of many, many file types. And it's totally free.

Happy Yuletide!

hold on... my irfanview does not list .gip as one of the files it can read. however, if you could turn it into bmp, or even save it as .pcd, .pcx, or .png, irfanview can open it.

I'm fascinated by these stories, and I know nothing of the characters or background. 12 Kingdoms?

You're welcome! Actually I never do update my journal, more or less. *g* But thank you for friending back!

I have the original scan, so I could send you just the face in either bitmap or jpeg?

Err- basically Saiyuuki Gaiden, in which Goujun the dragon king of the Western ocean appears (see icon), supplemented by Chinese legend and the original Saiyuuki novel, in which Goujun's three brothers appear, run through my yaoi filter and winding up as the series on Dragon Domestic Practices at my webpage (http://mjj.laleeloo.com/intaglio) featuring mostly OCs.

Thank you! Could you send it as a jpeg? I don't know why I can transform some bitmaps but not others, and jpegs are always safe.

Thanks. I'll give it a try. Googling the problem suggested I needed a special program anyway.

Ah. Thank you!

Oh, absolutely gorgeous.